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Fire-Breathing Storm Systems
October 20, 2010 — Pyrocumulonimbus is the fire-breathing dragon of clouds. A cumulonimbus without the "pyre" part is imposing enough -- a massive, anvil-shaped tower of power reaching five miles (8 km) high, hurling ... > full story -
Mounting Research Shows Increased Health Risks from Volcanic Air Pollution
October 20, 2010 — Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano has been erupting since 1983. But, in March 2008, an additional eruption vent opened at the volcano's summit, resulting in triple the amount of sulfur dioxide gas emissions ... > full story -
Old Logging Practices Linked to High Erosion Rates
October 19, 2010 — Clear-cut logging and related road-building in the 1950s and 1960s in southern Oregon's Siskiyou Mountains disrupted soil stability and led to unprecedented soil erosion made worse during heavy ... > full story -
Study of Haiti Quake Yields Surprising Results
October 18, 2010 — The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that caused more than 200,000 casualties and devastated Haiti's economy in January resulted not from the Enriquillo fault, as previously believed, but from slip on ... > full story -
Earth's Deep Water Cycle Needs Revision, Geophysicists Claim
October 18, 2010 — A popular view among geophysicists is that large amounts of water are carried from the oceans to the deep mantle in subduction zones -- boundaries where the Earth's crustal plates converge, with one ... > full story -
Rare Melt Key to ‘Ring of Fire’
October 11, 2010 — Scientists have discovered the explanation for why the world's explosive volcanoes are confined to bands only a few tens of kilometers wide, such as those along the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'. Most of ... > full story -
Tsunami Risk Higher in Los Angeles, Other Major Cities Than Thought, Haiti Study Suggests
October 10, 2010 — Geologists studying the Jan. 12 Haiti earthquake say the risk of destructive tsunamis is higher than expected in places such as Kingston, Istanbul, and Los Angeles. This latest research suggests even ... > full story -
Mystery of Italy's Mount Etna Explained?
October 7, 2010 — Geophysicists have developed the first dynamic model to explain the mystery of the largest and most fascinating volcano in Europe, Mount ... > full story -
Volcano Fuels Massive Phytoplankton Bloom
October 6, 2010 — New study shows that 2008 volcano in North Pacific fueled largest phytoplankton bloom in the region since satellite measurements began in 1997. This study has important implications for proposals to ... > full story -
Volcanoes Wiped out Neanderthals, New Study Suggests
October 6, 2010 — New research suggests that climate change following massive volcanic eruptions drove Neanderthals to extinction and cleared the way for modern humans to thrive in Europe and ... > full story
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